Madhu Sudan Sharma is project coordinator of the ‘Asia Pacific Public Electronic Procurement Network (ProOb-2)’ project. Primarily he is a research professional and has earned double masters’ in Anthropology and Sociology after graduated in biology. After acquiring 13 years of work experience in social sector and serving as a ‘Research Fellow’ for Indian Council of Medical Research, Government of India, he is associated with the organisation as a Senior Project Coordinator to work in the good governance programmatic area and especially has been responsible for Access to Information related interventions, health and PwDs related Interventions, Community Monitoring of Rural Roads with NRRDA, Govt. of India, Documenting Best practices of Rural Non-Farm Sectors across Assam, Karnataka, Odisha and Rajasthan with UDDP and State of Consumer Safety in India with Govt. of India. He was he project coordinator and carried out all he project activities along with the team of the ‘Setting up a Public Procurement Observatory in Rajasthan’ project supported by The World Bank in collaboration with SPFC, Finance Department, Govt. of Rajasthan and did extensive research on Procurement issues in various government procuring entities of the state. He did detailed analysis of the common citizenries’ awareness about the legal frame of public procurement of Rajasthan under the project and produced only of its kind resources for Rajasthan.
Along with the project, He is also responsible for implementation of the project ‘Asia Pacific Public Electronic Procurement Network (ProOb-2)’ with the support of Asian Development Bank (ADB) and carry all its activities in close collaboration with the state finance department especially State Public Procurement Facilitation Cell (SPFC). He is directly responsible for moderating the project website, conducting extensive field research on procurement related topics capturing experiences of procuring officials, venders and policy makers and analyzing the actual implementation status of the Act and rules of public procurement in Rajasthan.